#ghost physics

Rating: Teen and Up

Words: 7524

Pairing: Cat King / Edwin Payne

Summary:

He was… different in another way.

It dawned on him what it was one night when they were all taking a break from work to play games, and they had all started laughing at something that had gone completely over his head. He had failed to understand it and Crystal had jokingly called him an old man.

Suddenly it had been as clear as day to him.

He was an old man.

But he didn't look like one.

And at first I thought, well, the book must be physical because Crystal handles it, too.

But Crystal can also touch/interact with the boys.

So maybe the book is a ghost too. Or maybe it's part of the boys in the same way that their clothes and the backpack are.

Or maybe they just have cast a spell on all their physical items to prevent them being visible to humans.

thanks to some truly inspired posting by tumblr user @fluorescentbrains, i have written a full supernatural/MBMBaM crossover episode spec script. yes i HAVE completely lost it! ostensibly takes place between 15x14 and 15x15, as canon-compliant as possible but also who gives a fuck about ghost physics, no more salacious than your average New Scooby-Doo Movies celebrity guest star episode, etc etc. here’s a brief summary:

“His Brother, His Brother, My Brother, Him and Me” (season 15, episode 14.5): When notable podcaster Travis McElroy is possessed by a clown ghost named Bingo living inside a haunted doll, Sam and Dean Winchester come to the rescue—but who sent the McElroy brothers the ghost doll in the first place? Why don’t Justin and Dean get along? And what are they all doing on a cruise ship?

that's really interesting. gonna take a sec to get into real life theories but i've always thought that there's probably a sort of residue from emotion is real life. like humans are constantly creating emotions, through chemical reactions, and it's been shown that tears are our bodies way of flushing chemicals from our system when we produce too much. tears have different chemical make up depending on what you're feeling while crying. but emotions can also make us sweat and breath heavy so i figured we'd probably be letting out emotional chemicals that way too. because not everyone cries where they have strong feelings.

the logical extension to that in my head is that the chemicals we sweat and breath and cry out end up in our environment. probably rarely a significant enough mean anything, but you'll see it sometimes in places of great tragedy, there will be a sort of miasma in the area, like you can feel the grief and pain or anger. that could be explained by the event releasing a large amount of whatever chemicals are associated with negative feelings. it would also explain empathy to an extent. people with high empathy are just sensitive to those hormones/chemicals. nothing paranormal about it.

so with this scenario the idea is that those chemicals or miasma's end up in the 'ghost zone' and manifests as ectoplasm. or the emotions themselves attach to the pre-existing energy. ghosts would therefore be echoes of a traumatic death or moment of huge passion, where there would be a significant release of emotional chemicals. or in the case of the god like characters, millions of peoples thoughts and feelings and prayers towards their god, manifest into one singular being.

there is definitely a logic to this idea. though how exactly a separate dimension came to exist that's exclusively the manifestation and by products of emotion is a bit beyond me. that gets into where dimensions themselves come from. i'd also like to now why the emotions are going their and not just sticking around on earth. how do dimential tears work in this case. is the ghost zone a layer to our own dimension, or is it like a bubble attached to ours just taking things in. i imagine there's legitimate physics to it, and someone smarter than me could theorize how it works.

halfa's themselves are also very strange if this is the case but also that much more fascinating, because danny canonically had ectoplasm fuse to his body. and vlad had ectoplasmic radiation poisoning. which also... the fact that ectoplasm is radioactive in it's own way is it's own physics question. where does ectoplasm get it's energy? i suppose with that in mind the theory that the goo exists and is just effected my emotional chemicals makes more sense. like there's this bubble dimension attached to ours that we're throwing emotions at and it's manifesting in weird unexpected ways. i suppose that makes the most sense so far. again i don't know physics. either way danny and vlad literally took in the goo and now have powers manifesting because of their emotions. and it would probably be safe to say that their emotions are amplified?

why does ectoplasm manifest specifically as the powers the characters have. why is flying, invisibility, and intangibility standard manifestations of ectoplasm? why does it give their ghosts powers at all? the gods makes a bit more sense? by why would a persons passion and greed for boxes manifest as a being who can control boxes? is it wish granting? does the ectoplasm just follow the desires behind these emotions? why and why do they still get the standard power set if that has nothing to do with the ghost's wish? why does extoplasm behave the way that it does? i'm curious now.

Beau rubs the back of his head and rolls his eye up as he thinks. "Well... It's difficult to tell, exactly. We think the ground she was build on had experienced such negativity and bloodshed and brutal energy that her very foundation absorbed it all. Then you add in the sheer number of ghosts that inhabit her, which she takes in excess energy from, and you have a classic, powerful haunted house. This is why I stress that we take on happy haunts and encourage sympathetic vibrations from our mortal guests, to better influence her to be... not murderous friendly.

"For starters, she helps me with my illusions, stretching the gallery and making the ceiling disappear. If danger comes our way, she is one of our strongest and most lethal lines of defense. She also does a lot of her own repairs, like reforming windows broken by vandals.